The Daily Progress and the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce have established The Daily Progress Greater Charlottesville Business Hall of Fame. Initial member inductees will be announced later this year.

We are excited to initiate this new regional business Hall of Fame to recognize and honor businessmen and businesswomen in our community who have made an enduring, transformative achievement and contribution to business enterprise in Greater Charlottesville and our community, said Rob Jiranek, publisher of The Daily Progress.

Induction is determined by a selection committee upon thorough research, assessment and consideration of candidate business leaders since 1892, the inaugural year of The Daily Progress. The selection committee comprises representatives from The Daily Progress, the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce and area business leaders.

Inductees will be honored by a magazine insert in The Daily Progress, at a Daily Progress Greater Charlottesville Business Hall of Fame Luncheon on June 13 at the Boars Head Inn and on a mural of recognition in a prominent community location to be determined. The luncheon will be coordinated by the chamber.

Bob Gibson, a senior researcher at the University of Virginias Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service who spent more than 30 years as a journalist for The Daily Progress, is leading the effort to capture the history and achievements of the eventual inductees for the Hall of Fame magazine.

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